Vacation Ideas...

The current EtsyBloggers Blog carnival hosted by HandmadeBySandi has the following topics:

#1 What's the best vacation your ever had?
#2 Of all the places in the world, where would you like to go and why?

We'd like to go so many places all around the world to visit our blog furiends that it's hard to choose one place so we decided to show some of the fun things we do on mini-vacations around here! We'll first go to the beach...
your beans can visit a lighthouse or two...
on the way inland we can take a hike along a stream... of course we'd have to go to Crater Lake... and to Mount Hood...
we could stop by some waterfalls... and we'd have to wrap it up with a hike in the forest with me!
Hope you enjoyed our little trip around Oregon!

Sadie

Ode to Summer

Okay, I know the calendar says it's October and officially fall but it didn't really seem that way until the rains started here in the Pacific Northwest today. Hopefully it's just temporary and hasn't settled in until April or May but I'm already longing for summer again! I thought I'd share some of the beautiful places to see here in Oregon year round to remind me of the beauty here despite, and maybe because of, the rain.

I took this photo when we went hiking on the many trails around Multnomah Falls east of Portland. There are multiple waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge area not as majestic as this one but just as beautiful!

I took these pictures in September 2007 at Crater Lake in Southern Oregon. Crater Lake was formed 7,700 years ago when a volcanic eruption caused the 12,000 ft Mount Mazama to collapse. It is 1,943' deep which makes it the deepest lake in the United States and the 7th deepest in the world. The fresh water is so clear and is a gorgeous shade of bright blue. It is certainly a place that must be visited in Oregon!

Sadie went with us on these day trips around Oregon. She loves to go and loves to have her picture taken - don't you Sadie?

Can you believe she's sticking her tongue out at me?

Nature's majesty

I took these pictures last September at Crater Lake here in Oregon. Crater Lake was formed 7,700 years ago when a volcanic eruption caused the 12,000 ft Mount Mazama to collapse. It is 1,943' deep which makes it the deepest lake in the United States and the 7th deepest in the world. The fresh water is so clear and is a gorgeous shade of bright blue. It is certainly a place that must be visited in Oregon!